Reddit would probably sooner just lop off their entire EU userbase than comply.
No offense to Europeans because I love y’all, but you are a drop in the bucket for global (English) internet usage.
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoThis would struggle due to reddit API and compute power requirements
IIRC the EU released a law a few months ago that forces big internet communication platforms to open their API to third-party clients.
this applied to whatsapp i think, i’m not sure whether it also applies to reddit but it might be worth investigating if somebody has too much time on their hands :P
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
I think you would be surprised. Obviously UK (if you include it here) would do some heavy lifting for English-language users in Europe using Reddit, a massive chunk of Europe can communicate perfectly well in English on social media platforms and do - and you wouldn’t know they aren’t American or Anglo unless a topic came up where they would say it, or if you asked them.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To the best of my recollection the last I’ve seen bits of traffic data here and there, it’s large, but not large in comparison to the US and India.
Skavau@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Where does Lemmy share data on country of origin for its users?
Koarnine@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Then let them, we need to stop bending the rules for US companies, we don’t need them.
Koarnine@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Well technically Reddits API is open to third party clients, it just became prohibitively expensive around the exodus…
Does the new ruling include provisions for where the API has been made functionally unusable? It definitely could, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they missed that.